It just proves that if you want to do a crime, do the white collar crime. White gloves treatment will ensue, if you get caught.
Armed robber on the other hand may carry a minimum 5 year sentence.
This seems just fine to me. The amount of money between the $5k liquor store and Levandowski's theft is almost irrelevant: the armed robbery comes with significant risk of violent loss of life, which rightfully weighs much heavier in the criminal justice system than some other crimes.
Now if you want to talk about ridiculous sentencing minimums for non-violent crimes like possession of small amounts of illegal drugs, I'm all ears.
from the outside, it looks like the system is rigged to favour the rich white collar folks or maybe your point is also valid, as in, there is no threat to life and that's their criteria of measurement.
But it is a fact that rich people get treated better in the Prison system
I've seen a number of people banned for life from securities trading in British Columbia, for frauds exceeding 10 million, and they received basically no prison sentence at all.
> To give an example, the average burglary sentence in the United States is 16 months, compared to 5 months in Canada and 7 months in England.
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